A Course Correction at the University

Marine geologists of the University of Bremen were present on the Fourth Expedition of the Polar Research Institute to the Antarctic in late 1985 on the Polar Star; in summer 1986 a professorship in microbiology and virology is to be established; and in late 1986 the first professorship for space research is to be appointed. These three examples are somewhat out of fit with the image presented in the 1970s by Bremen University. But even the harshest critics of those years (e.g., the Bremen section of the "Freedom in Research" society) had to concede in early January 1986 that we "are on the right path."